Medicine Man - the Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome

Arnold, Ken and Danielle Olsen edit

Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) built up one of the world's largest museum collections – his own Museum of Man – containing over 125,000 both priceless and banal artefacts that span centuries and continents.

Over 500 illustrations and seven essays give an insight into the history of collecting as well as the material culture of health and medicine.

Now scattered across numerous institutions, 'Medicine Man' reunites a mix of objects from the 'forgotten' museum.

Publisher: The British Museum Press. First English edition 2003
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Pictorial wrappers. Fine


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